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The Oxford Book of Garden Verse by John Dixon Hunt (Paperback, 1994)
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There have been poems about gardens for as long as there have been gardens. As well as being microcosms of society, either perfectly maintained or ill-kempt and overrun, where love can blossom alongside the flowers, or withering and decay may presage death, they are sites or real human labour.
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There have been poems about gardens for as long as there have been gardens. Gardens have been all things to all men and women: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, of saftey and danger, art and nature, public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labour and metaphysical reflection. This diversity and verstility have always attracted poets, whose repertory of gardent themes on the page matches what garden makers have achieved on the ground. In this anthology successive historical periods of gardening - from enclosed garden and landscape park to Victorian flower-garden and moder patio - are mirrored in verse from the Middle Ages to the present day. While poets have eagerly seized upon the metaphorical associations gardens inspire, they have also been attracted to the robust. As well as being microcosms of society, either perfectly maintained or ill-kempt and overrun, where love can blossom alongside the flowers, or withering and decay may presage death, they are sites or real human labour. The gardener is here celebrated as much as his creation, as are his mundane tasks of weeding and making compost, mowing lawns and tending the allotment. In his introduction John Dixon Hunt discusses certain themes that recur throughout a selection that ranges from Chaucer to Pope, Marvell to Tennyson, Coleridge to Fleur Adcok, W.B. Yeats to Anthony Hecht, and Rudyard Kipling to Anne Sexton. Particularly fertile in modern examples, this anthology is a riot of literary talent to match the most abundant of gardens. This book is intended for readers of verse anthologies; garden-lovers and gardeners of literary inclination; landscape, social, and literary historians.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192823380
eBay Product ID (ePID)91330999
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Book TitleThe Oxford Book of Garden Verse
AuthorJohn Dixon Hunt
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry, Gardens
Publication Year1994
Number of Pages376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height190mm
Item Width120mm
Item Weight253g
Additional Product Features
EditorJohn Dixon Hunt
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 22 Jun, 2016
Poetry and Gardening - a great mix
If you like poetry and you like gardens then this is the book for you. From Chaucer to present day (1994 my copy) many poets have written about the splendour of gardens whether formal or wild. With over two hundred poems to browse or read who could resist sitting in their garden with a cup of tea and this book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
